> It says that the government “will prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender and anarchist” and “will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa.”

So, Democratic candidates who are looking like they will win a seat this midterm cycle are going to get arrested for "domestic terrorism".

Surveillance and totalitarian control is a downward spiral of misery and suffering for everyone, even those in power.

It reminds me of some quotes from the Tao Te Ching -

Restriction breeds the disorder it's meant to prevent (ch. 57) The more prohibitions there are in the world, the poorer the people become. The more sharp weapons, the more the state falls into confusion. The more laws and edicts are posted, the more thieves and bandits there are.

The world isn't a thing to be managed (ch. 29) The world is a sacred vessel; it cannot be manipulated. Whoever acts on it ruins it; whoever grips it loses it.

It's a great write up thankyou. I propose we build and distribute easy to use services designed to run on our own devices, in our own homes, to take full advantage of 1st and 4th amendments, then distribute these services widely with billboards so that people have alternatives and can take advantage of these protections.

No Comrade Premier, it has only just begun.

At this stage I'd settle for echelon era surveillance and consider it a win...

Ad tech/tiktok has proven its possible to deduce what people are think at scale from subtle signals, now sifting info at scale is possible thanks to LLMs and a large portion of everyone's online history is likely to become vulnerable to store now decrypt later attacks. Get rid of cash, force identity verification for every online service, sprinkle some flock cameras on top and you've got a complete surveillance state. Oh and of course you need some goons to scare people into compliance & later in some self-censorship for good measure. We could call the group "Frozen water".

...and we're basically already there on all of it except perhaps the "decrypt later" on https (and even that has rumours).

Genuinely don't think this is stoppable anymore.

Mate I am afraid the world governments are just starting.

Our corrupt duopolist politicians, who are bought and owned by the military-industrial complex, continue to vote to renew all of this. There's no "resistance". Some claim that Trump is a fascist but nonetheless rubber stamp the imperial Presidency.

The US Constitution is intentionally anti-democratic (small "d'), plutocratic, to protect the interests of the founding plutocrats. But at the time, the US was a preindustrial, agrarian nation, in which the fastest mode of communication and transportation was the horse. The concentration of power that has become possible now due to technology was inconceivable by the founders. I fear that nothing short of another American revolution can solve this problem; but that would surely be horribly bloody, as with most revolutions.